Events List
Profiling Hospital Performance Based on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Readmissions
-Speaker: Speaker: Guohai Zhou, Senior Statistician at Yale School of Medicine
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
From single-cells to patient diagnosis: statistical machine learning approaches to biomedical discovery
-Speaker: Speaker: Kieran Campbell, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Statistics at UBC, Department of Molecular Oncology at BC Cancer, and at the UBC Data Science Institute
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Statistical Inference for Cataloging the Visible Universe
-Speaker: Speaker: Jeffrey Regier, Postdocoral Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Accurate inference of DNA methylation data: statistical challenges lead to biological insights
-Speaker: Speaker: Keegan Korthauer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Preferential attachment and neutral random graphs: statistically useful generative models of network data
-Speaker: Speaker: Benjamin Bloem-Reddy
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Support points – a new way to reduce big and high-dimensional data
-Speaker: Speaker: Simon Mak, Postdoctoral Fellow, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Connections between optimization and sampling
-Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Paulin, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Mendelian randomization: A comprehensive statistical approach and applications to preventing heart disease
-Speaker: Speaker: Qingyuan Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistics Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Non-iterative Estimation Update for Parametric and Semiparametric Models with Population-based Auxiliary Information
-Speaker: Speaker: Fei Gao, Senior Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Sparse Generalized Eigenvalue Problem and Its Application to Multivariate Statistics
-Speaker: Speaker: Kean Ming Tan, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Bayesian adjustments for disease misclassification in epidemiological studies of health administrative data
-Speaker: Speaker: Tanja Högg, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Special Seminar: Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
-Speaker: Speaker: Michael Betancourt, Principle Research Scientist with Symplectomorphic, LLC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Beaty Museum Auditorium
Bayesian analysis of continuous time Markov chains with applications to phylogenetics
-Speaker: Speaker: Tingting Zhao, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
SAEM methods and PDE parameters statistical estimation - illustrations in biology
-Speaker: Speaker: Paul Vigneaux, Associate Professor (HDR) of Mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon; Part-time at the Dept of Mathematics of UBC (2018-2019)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Measuring the Impact of Nonignorability in Intensive Longitudinal EMA Data with Non-Monotone Nonresponse
-Speaker: Speaker: Hui Xie, Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU; Maureen and Milan Ilich/Merck Chair in Statistics for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Adjusting for Bias Induced by Informative Dose Selection Procedures
-Speaker: Speaker: Nancy Flournoy, University of Missouri (Columbia, MO); Assaf Oron, Institute for Disease Modeling (Bellevue, WA)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Spatial extremes: a conditional approach
-Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Jenny Wadsworth, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Methods for Preferential Sampling in Geostatistics
-Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Dinsdale, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Approximate Bayesian Forecasting
-Speaker: Speaker: Professor Brendan Mccabe, Management School, University of Liverpool
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
UBC Statistics M.Sc. Co-op Student Presentations (2)
-Speaker: Speaker: Boyi Hu and Wayne Wang
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)